South American Archaeology Products

By Harry Sanabria

This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, taking into account historical developments as well as the roles of power and inequality. The chapters address key topics such as colonialism,…

Paperback – 2019-03-29 
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Edited by Linda J. Seligmann, Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the…

Hardback – 2018-11-28
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Routledge Worlds

Edited by Basil A Reid

Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology. The book explores a…

Paperback – 2018-05-31
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Edited by Andrés Troncoso, Felipe Armstrong, George Nash

Rock art in South America is as diverse as the continent itself. In this vast territory, different peoples produced engravings, paintings, and massive earthworks, from the Atacama to the Amazon. These marks on the landscape were made by all different kinds of peoples, from some of the earliest…

Hardback – 2018-03-13
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Edited by Sarah B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion…

Paperback – 2017-09-20
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Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas

By Rebecca Storey, Glenn R Storey

This volume compares two of the most famous cases of civilizational collapse, that of the Roman Empire and the Classic Maya world. First examining the concept of collapse, and how it has been utilized in the historical, archaeological and anthropological study of past complex societies, Storey and…

Paperback – 2017-01-26
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Edited by Lucas C. Kellett, Eric Jones

In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology,…

Hardback – 2016-09-29
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Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas

Edited by Christina Halperin, Lauren Schwartz

Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the ancient past, where social relations and long-term history were created posthole by posthole, brick by brick. This collection shifts attention away from the elite and monumental architectural traditions of the region…

Hardback – 2016-09-12
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Routledge Archaeology of the Ancient Americas

Edited by Howard Morphy

This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now…

Paperback – 2016-09-05
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Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology

By George Lau

An Archaeology of Ancash is a well–illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland Ancash built impressive monuments, with no other region of South America showing such an early and…

Hardback – 2016-05-19
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By Michael Smith

At Home with the Aztecs provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these…

Paperback – 2016-03-03
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Edited by Geoffrey E Braswell

The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of…

Paperback – 2014-04-15
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